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I don’t have a problem keeping two high performers apart from one another if there is conflict. They would have to be on different teams.
I love the anecdote about your boss checking in on you. I have been lucky to have never really had an overbearing boss.
I hired a young woman a few years back (still with me) who was coming from a large company to a small one, and in the interview process she bluntly asked if I was a micromanager. I said “only when you force me to be.” She got it and has done really well since joining. Very little micromanagement necessary.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Because we have allowed idiots to define vandalism and rioting as somehow caused by oppression.
it’s about time we started calling anti social behavior what it is: crime.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)More than 22 people were helped. It’s just that they were the program employees and bureaucrats, not the target population.
patronage wins. Where did the high speed rail funds go?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The issue with wealth taxes, for me, isn’t as much whether they should exist…I have come around on that question…it’s what to do with the money. Government destroys value at every turn.
The notion that generational wealth should be taxed no longer bothers me. The problem is that politicians get the money.
I’m starting to see wealth tax as the most direct route to Universal Basic Income, which is a problem across the board but I’m betting is where we land as AI permeates every industry and eliminates white collar jobs. I’d rather hand wealth taxes directly back to every citizen for their immediate consumption than flow it through the bureaucracy for “programs.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)And yet I have 20-something’s that work for me who own homes and nice cars. I’m thinking the American dream is dead if you think the dream is to own nyc or Silicon Valley real estate as a young person with a normal job.
If the American dream is to work hard for a chance to own property and make a good life for yourself, I’d argue it’s still alive. It’s just that if you live in a bastion of greed you have to deal with monetization of everything.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)He was a quality thinker regardless of politics.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s also a good example of how tariffs, like all taxes, are actually a tight money policy, and that Trump isn’t crazy at all for jawboning the fed hard.
Tarrifs plus student loan collections plus rates remaining high plus Aca subsidies lapsing etc etc etc. Are all tight money and a brake on the economy. No stimulus to overcome it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Hear hear gr. The opposition abandons all values to “get trump”
never seen the notion so strong.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)These were not good women. What a shitshow.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Just an awful circumstance all around that is being fanned to flame up new riots ahead of midterms.
Renee Good was instigating. That doesn’t in any way condemn her but it puts her in the midst of professional law enforcement in stressed circumstances. She was (as I understand) a person who had some training in how to agitate near ICE.
She did not deserve to die. I can say that with certainty. Neither did the agent she struck with her car (indisputable evidence on that) deserve or sign up to be hit by cars. The moment she gunned her car in his direction, he was in fight mode.
Had the agent been dragged under the car, say if he had stepped left instead of right, this would be minor news. But, since he decided to fire at her, it’s a national incident.
she acted stupidly, from the point she put herself in harms way to the critical instigating point of gunning the motor in the general direction of an agent. She didn’t deserve to die any more than a person dancing on the edge of a cliff does, but the risk was there and the agent’s first shot looked completely justifiable.
that said, I’m not sure the two additional rounds he fired into the passenger window will pass muster. He may be in legal jeopardy if those were overkill.
this whole thing, which is almost completely on video, is the most fascinating Rorschach test I have seen. People literally watch the video and say “she didn’t hit him with her car” when it’s plain as day. They also say “good shoot” without the nuance that there may be excessive force.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Shoot the messenger. Sometimes literally.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I hope New York becomes a shining beacon of failure for all voters to learn from.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Have to admit, the wife and I walked all over sf in early November and I was fairly impressed with how clean and orderly things were. We walked through the tenderloin (have I mentioned I’m 6’7” and still pushing 300 lbs?) and it wasn’t that bad. A couple of blocks of people hanging out but not a bunch of fecal matter.
maybe Lurie is onto something.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)There are a lot of signs that can be read as possibly negative, but my opinion on the two anecdotes is they may not be.
Las Vegas have done it to themselves. What used to be a good value for your dollar to go and play has become extractive. There isn’t a good deal to be had on the strip. Used to be you could at least play some $5 blackjack when you got tired or wiped out. No longer.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)When ICE raids were reportedly planned for charlotte a few months ago, and word got around, the city basically looked like the pandemic. No traffic, empty stores, empty schools.
Methinks the illegals are way, way underestimated.
The good news is that Trump’s agenda is looking very effective on this front. Real wages are up and housing may moderate a bit.
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